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Timeless: What is the history and meaning of the humble orange?
Foreign Fruit
What you need to know before your trail
The orange is a souvenir of history. Across time, it has been a harbinger of God and doom, fortune and failure, pleasure and suffering. It is a fruit containing metaphors, dreams, mythologies, superstitions, parables and histories within its tough rind. So, what happens when the fruit is peeled and each segment – each moment of history, each meaning in time – is pulled apart?
In this distinct, subversive and intimate hybrid memoir, Katie Goh explores the orange as a means of understanding the world, and herself within it.
Travel Guide
The world as seen through an orange
Katie Goh explores the orange as a means of understanding the world, and herself within it. What she reveals is violence, colonialism, resilience, survival, adaptation – and unexpected beauty and sweetness against all odds.
Three spots on the map but that is just for starters….a starter of orange slices if you will…..
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Foreign Fruit
Destination/Location: China, Spain, Vienna, Worldwide Author: Katie Goh Departure: Timeless
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